But, of course, it’s not about us. It’s about Trump. And he, alas, is proving to be the overcooked noodle he has been since, well, pretty much day 1 and ever since: flaccid, confused and spineless. And yeah, he appears be stupid alright, especially so-called “plan” to defeat Daesh (more about that below).

We all know that Anglo-Zionists are peace loving, shy and generally kind people. This is why we think of them as the “Axis of Kindness”. The only way to really force their hand and make them use their “best military in the world” is to show them dead children. Like in Kuwait, in Bosnia, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria. That, and women raped for political reasons (Bosnia, Libya – soon in Syria I suppose). Good thing that the latest atrocity of the “Syrian regime” came in daylight and involved lots of horribly dying children!

There have been plenty of articles speculating about what the “Trump plan” for defeating ISIS/Daesh will be. I won’t even bother listing them here. In plain English his plan is, how should I put it, not very complex:

Increase the number of US troops already present in Syria

Offer the Kurds their own autonomous region in exchange for acting like cannon-fodder for Uncle Sam

Let me help here. Problem #1 – no UNSC Resolution will back it. Neither will the Syrian government. But who cares, right? We already know that Nikki Haley thinks about that: once again the US will arrogantly violate international law under the pretext of “being compelled to take action”. Welcome back to Bosnia and Croatia! It’s 1994 again! We now live in the era of the “RTP – responsibility to protect”. International Law, RIP. But that is only a ‘minor’ problem. The real problem is simple:

Besides the Syrians themselves, the Russians, the Iranians and the Turks are categorically against such a plan. And these four countries just happen to represent the overwhelming military force in Syria, and all of them *already* have boots on the ground (and air defense systems). For Turkey especially, such a plan is a casus belli, they have said so many times. I am no big fan of Turkey or Erdogan (although I do like the Turkish people themselves), but I have to admit that should Trump go ahead with this goofy plan he will live no other choice then to chose between war or civil war. Mostly likely a combo of both.

Then there are the Kurds. Actually, in many ways I feel sorry for them and I admire them. But they have to realize the enormous dangers of accepting the US plan. First, that means that they will be the frontline cannon-fodder against Daesh which happens to be one of the best trained and experienced infantry force in the region. But worse, do the Kurds really commit the same historical mistake as the Albanian of Kosovo who have 100% linked their future with Camp Bondsteel and who will be instantly re-invaded by the Serbia as soon as NATO or the US leave (which they will, sooner or later, inevitably).

There is a reason why the US always supports minorities everywhere: because by accepting and relying on that support these minorities always become completely dependent upon the USA. That, in turn, means that the US can then use these minorities in any way they want “or else”. And, since sooner or later the Americans leaves, the “or else” inevitably and always happen.

I submit that it would be the hight of folly for the Kurds to commit the same mistake. Yes, sure, they want their autonomy and/or their own country. But they have to realize that the onlyviable way to achieve either objective is by negotiations with their neighbors, not some ignorant US official who will forget about them as soon as he is done promising them the moon. I would remind the Kurd of a time-honored US tradition here: as soon as things get ugly, the Americans “declare victory and leave”.

That also means that the Kurds might have to settle for less than what they want. Politics is the art of the possible. But if the choice is some viable limited autonomy vs full independence followed by an inevitable war against Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria then I think that the former is the best possible outcome. But even if we assume that the Kurds decide to try the “Kosovar option”.

Iran is the number one military power on the ground. And Hezbollah. The Syrians are struggling, I will admit to that. But they are holding and making incremental efforts, some of their best units are actually pretty good. As for the skies over Syria – they are Russian.

So far, the Americans have not re-heated the “no fly zone” concept, but they might as well, since their entire plan is idiotic to the extreme. Besides, I simply cannot imagine US generals agreeing to deploy their forces in Syria without air cover (in case you did not know, the US solider cannot fight without air cover. He just won’t. It’s “air cover for me or I don’t fight”). However, air cover for the US forces in Syria imply either a tacit agreement with the Russians and the Syrians, something like what the Israelis apparently have, or an immense risk for the USAF and USN aircraft. So we are back to negotiating with the Russians and via the Russians, with the Syrians.

In fact, I bet you that this is what the Americans are doing right now. Quietly negotiating with the Russians. Problem: the Neocons hate Russia and everything Russian. And they loathe Putin. So how does the State Department or the White House negotiate with the Russians while, at the very same time, Congress, the US media and the CIA are all engaging into a hysterical and paranoid hate-campaign against Russia?

So here is Trump’s conundrum: he desperately needs the real enemies of Daesh – Russia, Iran and Syria – to agree to his plan but at the same time, he is too much of a whip to tackle the hate campaign against, well, Russia, Iran and Syria inside the United States.

The Neocons, apparently backed by the CIA and the Pentagon, want to go at it solo: just shoot up all of Syria “OK Corral” style and they seem to be convinced that they can somehow scare the Russians, the Iranians and the Syrian into submission. If so, then they are both stupid and ignorant. Or, there is even a worse possibility: the Neocons *know* that this plan will end up in disaster, but they want Trump to go to war anyway because that will destroy his presidency. That is almost elegant, in a perverted way.

What is sure is that you will never see a Neocon in frontline combat. Neither they nor their kids will die no matter what they do. Or so they think. This is one of the main reasons why these Neocons are the single biggest danger for the United States and the American people: they despise the real American people and they won’t hesitate to sacrifice them, in large numbers if needed (9/11 anybody?).

This is why so many Americans voted for Trump and his promise “to drain the swamp”.

Alas, the swamp drained Trump and all is back to “normal”.

So what happens next? My fervent hope: nothing. Absolutely nothing. As long as the Americans are all talk and as long as they don’t actually do anything, there could be real progress in Syria (Daesh is already loosing the war!). I hope that the Kurds will, you know, “kinda, sort of, give it a try” and then stop before things go critical. Should the Kurds really decide to fight for Uncle Sam, I hope that they will keep in mind that the US will dump them as soon as Raqqa is liberated simply because really creating some kind of autonomy for the Kurds against the will of Syria, Iran and, most importantly, Turkey could result in Erdogan really slamming the door on NATO and Turkey leaving the alliance. Should that happen the only option left for Turkey would be some kind of understanding, and maybe even alliance, with Russia and Iran. The various domino effect scenarios are almost infinite and nothing is really impossible.

Right now the Americans are still sort of busy liberating Mosul. I suppose if they stay at it long enough they will eventually succeed, at least for a while. I don’t see them really controlling the city for very long. They might build a US ‘consular fortress’ like in Bagdad or Kabul, but that will not mean that they control the city. If they intend to liberate Raqqa as long as they took to liberate Mosul then this can continue for a long, long while.

There is a scarier possibility: the US begins its operation in Syria, runs into problems, and then begins the endless cycle of escalations and doubling-down. Sooner or later, that means clashing with the Russians and that could turn ugly very fast. A direct clash with Iran with equally unpredictable consequences. If that happens, a lot of Americans will die.

Assuming that there still is somebody rational and sane left in the Trump administration with enough influence, then all this madness can still be stopped. There is also the very real possibility that the current fight inside the US elites will drain so much energy that nobody will really have to time and energy to engage in very risky foreign military operations. And if all else fails, maybe somebody will suggest to Trump that a unilateral military intervention in Syria is pure folly and will cost him his presidency. Maybe this is an argument which he will understand.

2018 will be a very tough year. I don’t think that there is any hope left for a real change in US policies and I am afraid that we are going to have to learn how to live with some kind of Obama 2.0 or some other form of “neo-neoconism”.

It felt really good to hope for a while. Now we have to accept that our hopes never materialized and resume the struggle.

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Looks like Trumpy has pissed off a big chunk of his “base”. Most Zero Hedge comment-critters either loved Trumpy, or took a “wait and see” attitude. Seems there are a LOT of veterans who want nothing (tax- or dead-body- wise) more to do with another direct war in the Middle East (or anywhere, for that matter). Turns out WMD/White Helmet agit-prop alarms don’t work their magic anymore. And the Syrians/Hezbolla/Russians are too smart to kill US troops illegally tromping around Syria.

I guess the anti-“be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box” movement is still strong in the undercurrents of the US public psyche. If the US/Zionist/Wahabbists can pay/convince “moderate rebels” to die for their faux-Judaic/Islamic agenda, even using US tax$$, fine. But no more flag-draped coffins thanks.

Saker, I wrote this to post under another article, but it seemed appropriate to post it here.
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The US is currently moving forces into eastern Syria, increasing the numbers of troops on the ground weekly and going dark about the count. Centcom announced it would no longer publish the numbers. This process began under Obama and continues under Trump without pause and without Syrian consent, to my knowledge. Although the presence of US forces in Syria violates Syrian sovereignty and international law, the UN remains mute, as usual.
This is an invasion, nothing less, which in my view is meant to achieve a “fact on the ground” that cannot be undone without a clash between superpowers. The “fact on the ground” is a “safe zone” within Syria, more accurately an “occupation zone” that serves to irreversibly partition Syria.
US policy remains steadfast in achieving this goal by any means possible. For this reason, I believe the war in Syria is about to get much worse.
Evidence…yesterday the US media instantly blamed Assad for yet another chemical “attack”, this time in Idlib, despite absence of any link to Assad, and despite knowledge of earlier evidence clearly linking opposition forces to prior chemical attacks. Trump blessed the fake news and added more of his own by spreading the blame to Obama for failing to act in the past. Simultaneously, the US airwaves were saturated with lies and denunciations about Assad and fresh red line warnings. Clearly, the chemical attack was timed and choreographed with the media in order to generate maximum public support for whatever the US has planned against Syria in the near future. Whatever it is, they are about to do it under the bear’s nose, and probably also behind its back (in Lebanon).
Ample evidence exists that the real purpose of dividing Syria is the territorial expansion of Israel. Yinon laid it out clearly for all to read. Iraqi reports of IDF commanders leading ISIS units are noteworthy. Other IDF officers are known to have worked (and died) in command centers bombed by Russia in Syria. The destruction and theft of Iraqi and Syrian antiquities also reflects intent to erase Arab culture and history on stolen lands and thereby render moot any future Arab claim to those lands. Palestinians have cataloged similar erasures of their homes and villages in Israel. The entire war since 2003 has been an infrastructure-destroying, culture-erasing, civilian-killing, and population-resettling operation, none of which is required for laying a gas pipeline through a desert.
The defeat of ISIS may cause a shift in US tactics, but it will not end the Syrian war or end US action in Syria. The war will continue until the US achieves partition or is driven forcefully out of the region (with Israel).
Russia’s choices are to unilaterally stand down, make deals with the West to share the spoils, or fight.
How will Russia respond to the present US invasion?
We are at the precipice of world war. Russia is surrounded by regions stoked with tension by the US: Korea, South China Sea, Ukraine, former Warsaw Pact nations, the arctic, and Armenia/Azerbaijan. The Western build-up is almost complete in Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia. More money has been earmarked for military spending (by Trump), and regular military shows of force are conducted in the named regions.
I believe it is the Kremlin’s belief that world war is certain. Therefore, the Russian response in Syria, if attacked, will reflect Russian recognition that a world war has begun. Imagine the heat.
At this point, the Trump election was a victory for Hillary’s policies (i.e., neocon war policies). Whether Trump misrepresented himself or flipped since January 21 2017 are of no concern to me. The fact is Trump’s actions show he embraces neocon ideology today no less than Barak Obama, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton.
Knowing the risk and the low probability of success, I and many other Americans supported Trump hoping the US would find a way to reject this inane war and pursue peace. I believe peace, not jobs, was the highest priority of most Trump supporters, and still is. We haven’t failed yet, but the troops are moving and the prognosis is grim. Pray our Frankenstein government grows a frontal lobe before it’s too late.

Not really… like all bullies, the US will only take on much weaker adversaries. The US military has not actually won a “war” since invading Grenada, despite all the destruction rained on innocents since. Going up against Russia and China, even conventionally in a foreign theatre, will not end well for the US. All that sending drones to terror-bomb against Russia or China will do is make a lot of expensive scrap metal.

Note the US has been very careful only to “accidentally” kill Syrian or Iraqi troops, but as their Kurdish and “moderate terrorist” mercenaries increasingly take their wages and run home, the US will soon have to do its own dirty work. Or just claim victory and withdraw. Cowardly Israel will never, ever take on Russia directly (even in Syria), as shown when tough-talking Nutty-yahoo was sent home from Moscow tail-between-legs after being told by Putin to stop harping on ancient history.

Appreciate Saker’s analysis and also the fine thoughts of mrr. I don’t know if US aggression in North Korea, Syria, or even Macedonia will ignite a global catastrophe. Probably 40% of Americans are too apathetic or ignorant to have a clue, and another 50% are brainwashed as I’m sure was the case in 1930’s Germany. Of the remaining 10%, half of them have a stake in the status quo and support the evil, the remaining 5% or less who understand and abhor US policy are helpless to do anything about it and are considered to be nut cases (or Russian agents) when they speak up.

American public opinion is irrelevant. War is waged with drones, US based contractors, and “terrorists” (foreign mercenaries funded and controlled by the AZ MIC, but with deniability). The willingness of the serfs to submit to a draft is not a concern. Likewise, taxes are not needed any more, the One Bank can just print money and make people use it at the point of a gun.

The problem with that is the war they are pushing for will not miss US mainland this time.
Quite opposite. Who in their right mind can think that Russia and US would not be in collision course in Syria, if US decided to go with unilateral action against Syrian Army?
And you will see how fast would public opinion change and turn against Deep State and all those pushing for war.
The next big war Deep State globalists are pushing for will definitely be their end and the end of US as we know. Probably the end of the World as we know.
I am 100% sure that opposing side in that war would be prepared to sacrifice everything in order to destroy US. And I certainly give them my full support and if needed they can count on me.

Tom, ICBMs don’t exist. They’re a hoax from the 1950ies. Mankind can launch things into space but cannot make them reenter safely. To do intercontinental distance of 5000 km, the apogee needs to be 1000 km or more. Reentering objects need to be decelerated to avoid burning up. That requires propulsion technology that we have not invented yet. So ICBMs are just science fiction. Like manned space travel.

And what people imagine is carried by ICBMs is also just fiction, but nuke fanboys dislike this simple yet important insight.

The power of illusion. We’ve been fooled for decades.

It’s all down to earth and conventional. And that’s why geography and bases and places are so important. All down to earth, all conventional. No magic bullet.

“World public opinion” will also not make much of a difference. Sheeple can be steered and brainwashed very efficiently. No need to worry. Most people don’t even remember the Liar Colin Powell or the Kuwait incubators. Don’t remember, don’t care. Panem et circenses still works great. Sad but true.

Thank you for your insights. For years, I have had the sense that we have been lied to, and in a truly terrible fashion–but it was all “okay” somehow because the “experts”, the priesthood, knew everything and because there was a colossal amount of money to be made from war . General Butler, in his classic essay War is a Racket warned america about all of this way back in the 1930’s!!!

I wish you to be right, but the reality is quite different.
Mystery of maneuverable warhead
According to an article published in Washington Times, sometimes in the middle of July 2001, Russia conducted an unannounced test of a new scramjet-powered missile, which, reportedly was tracked by US radar, as it hit an impact range at Kamchatka Peninsula (apparently Kura range). The newspaper claimed that the missile was launched on top of the SS-25 (Topol) ICBM and after reaching the apogee of its trajectory separated from the booster stage reentered the atmosphere and continued flying toward the target. According to the newspaper, the launch took place in “central Russia,” which is probably Plesetsk.
Source:http://www.russianspaceweb.com/topolm.html
USA has more sophisticated ICBM

At the training center regarding Mass destruction weapons (specifically Thermonuclear weapon) the Instructors informed us regarding all Effects of the nuclear explosions.
Blast—40–50% of total energy.
Thermal radiation—30–50% of total energy.
Ionizing radiation—5% of total energy (more in a neutron bomb).
Residual radiation and fallout—5–10% of total energy with the mass of the explosion.
After he explained How to survive a nuclear bomb. He told us many things how to use terrain or find a shelter. It sounds ridiculous because it was crisp clear that this training was not adequate even to survive a tornado. Finally he told us.
There are 3 ways how to survive thermonuclear explosion.
The best advice for surviving a nuclear bomb is to be somewhere else when it goes off. If that doesn’t work out for you, then a good option is to be in the epicenter, because you’ll be vaporized before touching the ground. If you are in the between then grab your handgun and shoot yourself in the head.

I think that is a pretty good analysis. I think the situation is desperately serious.
Below is a quote from an earlier Saker report by Scott on Belarus. We should note the perception of the woman Hill. She says it is already a hot war.
From
Belarus sitrep March 26 –

“Another woman of war from the UK that we should pay attention is Fiona Hill

This month, a few days before her NSC staff appointment was announced, Hill gave an interview to a New York periodical in which she declared war on Russia. “I think we are in a hot war with Russia, not a cold war. But we have to be careful about the analogy. It’s a more complex world. There is no set-piece confrontation. This is no holds barred. The Cold War was a more disciplined competition, aside from the near blowups in Berlin and Cuba, where we walked back from the brink. The Kremlin now is willing to jump over the abyss. They want to play for the asymmetry. They see themselves in a period of hot kinetic war. Also, this is not just two-way superpower. There is China, the rising powers. I almost see it as like the great power competition from the time before the Second World War.”

Hill’s work in stoking Kremlin regime change schemes during the Obama Administration and at Brookings with Strobe Talbott, Clifford Gaddy, and Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland), was reported here – click to open.”

Clearly, the chemical attack was timed and choreographed with the media in order to generate maximum public support for whatever the US has planned against Syria in the near future.

Precisely. Trump has been very secretive about what’s being planned for Syria. You’ve covered every point, and may I add, that the pipeline will be the icing on the cake for Zionist Neocons whose main objective is as you stated and they will enforce control of the region by occupying Eastern Syria. ISIS was used to exhaust Syrian forces and reserve territory that the Zionist U.S. will end up taking over and occupying. Syria has always been the critical target for undermining Iran all along. Trump has had it out for Iran since the campaign. Whether or not Trump wanted to target Iran through Syria or by other means; the chemical attack has given him cover to get Iran through Syria.

Recently Trump slammed Obama for removing troops from Iraq.

Certainly we shouldn’t have left. We should never ever have left,” Trump told Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the White House. “And a vacuum was created, and we discussed what happened.

Therefore Trump would have preferred a base or occupation in Iraq and once the ISIS excuse to invade Syria is no longer viable; he’ll insist that he doesn’t want to make the same “mistake” Obama made in Iraq creating a vacuum in Syria.

Trump has been talking out of both sides of his mouth, but it’s obvious what direction he’s headed in – the Neocon plan. This is what I’ve been insisting for the longest time. Obama with Hillary’s goading started the process, but was hesitating to put boots on the ground in Syria. Trump is going the distance.

Trump’s says the chem attack crossed a lot of lines not just a red line: that sounds like Neocon-speak for war.

@ Circe: I don’t think Trump is being “secretive” about the US warmonger (military and economic) plans in Syria or elsewhere. He only “knows” what he is told, and since he has simply moved from a convoluted corporate information bubble to the even more arcane POTUS-manipulating Deep State bubble, he “knows” even less than Saker readers. Real info seldom shows up on The Donald’s Twitter feed or in US gov’t POTUS briefings.

This is the only explanation that fits Trump’s wildly divergent and vacillating positions, often at odds with those he has picked as advisers/cabinet and even more frequently at 100% odds with the permanent MIC bureaucracy.

Only a fool, a zealot and/or someone grossly un/misinformed could arrive at most of what Trump says and does.

It was in the personal self-interest of Trump Incorporated management to ensure Trump’s businesses “made money”. The 0.001%/Zionist controlled Deep State has exactly the opposite personal self-interest regarding Trump-as-POTUS. The fact the Clinton/Obama/Soros Crime Cabal is not only free, but still engaging in near-treasonous activities and international regime change shows Trump has no ability or even clue on how to “drain the swamp”.

His appointees fighting the Rep/Dem duopoly and Deep State? More like randomly using a flame-thrower to fight a major forest fire, while simultaneously spraying tanker-trucks of gasoline on anything not yet on in flames. And all not in the Deep State/Rothchild flame-protected zones are getting burned, badly.

It will be interesting to see how Trumpy does in his first exchange with a real international titan, Xi. Expect a lot of Trump’s tough-guy rhetoric being walked back by the MSM, as it serves the Deep State agenda to will make Trump look “soft on” everything. North Korea may not be China’s favourite child right now, but it is doubtful Xi will castrate or deliver that country up to a US puppet regime.

Never for get Trump’s only role was to be the candidate easiest for the corrupt, psychopathic Killary to defeat. Be assured, all this Washington kabuki is to ensure Trump never gets a second term, unless he proves an even more malleable puppet than any Dem (or Rep?) candidate the Deep State/001% might manufacture.

As absurd as this may sound the evidence seems to stack up in favor of this scenario of a US led invasion of Damascus, Syria. The movement of US desert Camo military equipment was done in a way to avoid detection by Russia. First to Germany to make it appear as a buildup on Russia’s border, then to Poland final to a port in Romania, then reloaded at set sail to Beirut Lebanon where Damascus comes into view. All the while Israeli US Italian and UAE military work in Greece to overcome Russia s300 air defense system. Israel moves their forces into the Golan for supposed drills. All troops in position Damascus to be hit next.

Read Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49:23-27. Both the “Christian” Zionists and the originals believe they need to destroy Damascus to (self) fulfill their bloody prophesy. It WILL happen, DJT was just a wee bump in the road to hell.

The “Christian Zionists” and other stupid zealots play no role in shaping US foreign policy, which emanates from the strategic unipolar interests of the US ruling class (embedded in the MIC/Wall Street symbiosis) and uses a clear and announced Neocon supremacist philosophy. The Zealots are there as part of the manipulable choir, and as canon fodder when the shooting starts.

@ Perimetr: If you know about the US “camo” movements, you can bet Russia/Putin/Assad do as well, and probably knew as soon as the equipment/troops vacated wherever the US had them parked, no matter what route was taken. If this is what passes for logistical strategy in the US military, the US has already lost the “conventional” aspect of WW3. Playing tiddly-winks while Putin and Xi play multi-level 3D chess.

The Iraqi Kurds walked away from the Mosul debacle rather than lose troops/equipment in the US’s idiocy. And when even your paid mercenaries leave, it’s bad. In Ukraine, the Canadian “advisers/trainers” were caught on video displaying their total lack of functional knowledge of the weapons the Kiev junta recruits had. Who is training who? Training to be cannon-fodder?

Um, Russia has S-400’s covering 100%+ of the Syrian theatre (after the military-embedded Gulenist Turks managed to get the SU-24M shot down), with S-500’s soon in the works. The Israeli jets invading Syrian airspace narrowly avoided being shot down by updated 1980’s vintage S-200’s.

Is this the Reuters half-truth, old news being recycled? Of note, the S-300 systems in question were sold to Crete back in 1997, and by the admission of Greek military have not been “active” for many years. So guessing any really knowledgeable Greek technicians are long gone, and Russia will not have provided any on-going support. Consider that the Israeli jets recently invading Syrian airspace were nearly shot down by S-200’s, proving the Israeli/US boffins didn’t learn much from the Crete S-300 radar/locking experiments. And to think Russia hasn’t implemented many refinements since 1997 to their missile systems is just plain silly.http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-israel-greece-idUSKBN0TN10G20151204

Both Putin and Xi are working hard to avoid the nuclear option, but Trumpy is too “exceptionally” stupid to know who to listen to. WW3, even conventionally, will be fought on US soil. Of that you can be assured. Now if the US public only knew that too…

Trump is a smart businessman. He didn’t get to be a billionaire by being stupid.

He is uneducated about the world of politics, though. He has no clue about the great trends of our time, he has never been interested in history, and how that could inform what he does on the international stage.

It’s no accident that his successes, international and domestic, have all been based on negotiating like a business guy with people who are ready and willing to talk turkey with someone who “gets” the Art of the Deal (finally! Obama was clueless about both business and history)

But Trump is out of his depth in the areas of diplomacy and international strategy, and he will be suckered into a morass that will lead the US into a dark place.

Great read Saker! Trump was allowed to become president. Different side of the same coin, it’s as simple as that really. If he was truly independent, he would never have reached the oval office, or worse yet, and if he did he’d be taken our JFK style. Anglo-Zionist controlled America and by extention the West is a lost cause.
War is inevitable I believe. It’s just a matter of time.

NYT pull quote: President Trump said that the death of “innocent children, innocent babies, little babies” has made him reassess the situation and Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.

This guy sounds incredibly easy to manipulate.

I guess that was the only question about him going into the election — he had spent his time on the outside of the New York elite, profiting from noticing facts nobody else was noticing in the way all businessmen do, but he didn’t know what it was like to be on the inside.

His outburst, responding to whoever called Putin a “killer,” that “America are no saints” on the world stage, was his last bit of common sense before the neocons were able to wipe it out of him.

Now he knows what it’s like to be a Washington insider, and he’s apparently content with that. Farewell, Trump.

Yes, very agreeable what The Saker writes. Whatever the reason, what Trump said about Syria is completely inexcusable. It can only mean that he is a disgustingly stupid naive bum, as far as almost anything apart from his business is concerned (Americans are extremely indoctrinated, anxious, and ignorant anyway).
They definitely didn’t want him as president, but it sure seems that he turned into just another cowardly depraved (Anglo)Zionist house negro. Therefore he is no threat to them at all (nor hope for Americans, let alone the world). Putin seems to be the only decent leader. What he stands for the whole world supports and is willing to fight for.

So, the stronger bully won out over the weaker bully. Meanwhile, the Multipolar Alliance continues to grow stronger daily. Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has forcefully come out attaching the terrorist enabling false-flag tags to the White Helmets, which does a lot to blunt tRump and Haley’s bluster–and the factual proof is all on Russia’s side. The upcoming summit with Xi now has even more interest.

In the PR war. Russia is way out_gunned.
Some time back I visited friends right at the moment one friend was online about the vote to allow the white helmets to be eligible for the Hollywood award.
I had a rant, which persuaded her to stop (at least while I was there- but I think I caused her to doubt).
Then they won the Oscar. So I was “wrong” about the white helmets. They could NOT have won if what I had said (about them being fake – no need to rant here).
So if white helmets say the Syrians chemical – killed children. Then that’s what happened will be the view of all the Hollywood/celebrity loving world.

Fortunately, that world is rather small and shrinking rapidly. Remember there’re 6.7 Billion or so other folks living on the planet that are open to what Russia’s POV and actually look at what evidence is displayed.

When it comes to geo-politics, there are rarely any “coincidences”.
So. terror on the St Petersburg metro.
False flag chemical attacks Syria.
Is the message to Russia: we CAN strike you internally anytime? The Russian security has been effective in recent years. But now “they” find and use a “cleanskin” who slides under the radar to commit the bombing in St Petersburg.
It seemed a “rollcall” of dead Russian diplomats (vale Vitaly Churchin) was not enough to intimidate, so now they are going to hit harder at Russian civilians.
Demons

We all agree now. Trump has been couped.
Flynn was key.
Trump is now fed a daily diet of lies.
The psyops war is using Trump’s personality to lead him and his presidency to self-destruction.
Confronting Iran in Syria and possibly, Lebanon, is classically Israel’s agenda and the Wolfowitz master plan to destroy Iran, Syria and Hezbollah. ISIS and AQ could not get this done. Now the US “coalition” will give it a try. But it requires large US troop exposure in Syria.

The size of the US commitment on the ground will be in the 5000-10,000 range.
That’s a lot of targets.
And the “safe zones” for refugees are really bases of operations.
But as soon as the Kurds appear to be given a zone, Turkey will throw the US out of Incirlik. And probably leave NATO, at least the way France did under de Gaulle.

If the US targets Damascus, Assad or the Syrian Army, Iran will react. With a flick of the switch Iraq will turn into hell for the US again.

If Israel shows its hand against Syria in Golan, the Lebanon war is on.
Does Jordan really want on a war on its soil? It will get one.

The US will be defending Israel, US in Iraq and Syria and its vassal, Jordan.

How does the US do that and wage war in Syria, Iraq, Iran and probably Yemen?
You cannot defend when you are attacking all over the region (or trying to).

Massive Russian and Chinese aid will flow toward Iran and Syria. If the US interdicts, Russia will be forced to counter.

How any plan proceeds without the US pulling out the stops in the front line NATO states seems improbably. Therefore, Ukraine goes on attack. And probably a move is made in Transnistria. The Baltics might erupt.

Eastern Europe will all get a taste of hell.

There is every reason to believe that Putin would declare a national emergency, put all the citizens below ground in bomb shelters and use tactical nukes.

There is no reasoning with ideologues who are intent on domination of the globe.

Syria has been a very serious war. Few lessons have been learned by the Hegemon. Oncoming is a major lesson that will damage Trump far worse than anything Clinton and Obama could have hoped for.

The Chief Goy is about to find himself sacrificed like a Paschal lamb on Passover. Ritual slaughter in the history books of the future.

@Larchmonter445.
The Russians have been “drilling” all 2016.
I read, but could hardly believe, they put 40million in a drill last year, can you confirm this?
Putin knows his history. Tsar and soviet.
If he absolutely has to “strike first” I guess he will…..
Bearing mind that what will be called a first strike” comes, as we understand, from a decade ( at least) of ever escalating provocations.
And of course, there is the ever-reliable false flag start to a war…..
NATO advertising “drills” with Russian speakers playing “villagers”.
I have not forgotten about the Russian planes the US has – I have been expecting a false flag bombing by “RF” aircraft for a while.* I’ll leave the link finding to others – many are so good at the link thing! *

Syria has been to WW3 what the Spanish civil war was to WW2.

Sick as it is to say, Syria has been a “good opportunity” for RF. They have had the reason to test equipment, men, systems in a genuine “life or death” scenario. No amount of “drills” can give that edge of experience.

Trump doesn’t know to use the internet, and get information independent of the liars around him? Not at all — Trump either knows or is willfully ignorant; he is either carrying through hidden intentions from all along, or has just capriciously changed his mind. He may be an idiot, but he is not a complete idiot, and plenty of people of average intelligence and awareness, and quite limited access, to information know what is going down.

He didn’t suddenly become an idiot — he was always blind in a number of areas, and much (or most) of what he said was not truth, but run through his filters and repeated ideology and lies, or what people wanted to hear. There are plenty of sources who told a lot more truth than Trump did. There are a few areas where he got things more right than his opponents, but if he really believed it and would follow though, or was just giving a sales pitch, was not well known, and still mostly isn’t. Some of this shows in how he would tell different things to different audiences at different times. He’s a master of BS.

Trump was never the messiah he and others like you pretended he was. He is an actor and basically, a shameless idiot, the very first requirement for anyone wanting to be a star. Lol. How much information did you and everyone else have to pretend to forget to keep the ruse going.

Trump is a fraudster. Anyone who thinks for themselves and doesn’t take direction from schizo-sayanim has known it for a very long time.

I doubt anyone though he was a messiah, but an unknown in various areas — and how could one tell without much more information that was readily available, and with all the disinformation around? The system itself is fraudulent, based on deception.

I always thought he was a terrible choice — just not as truly terrible as Clinton, and many people thought the same, unless they were pretty far right, and even some of those. Yet, many were almost forced to defend Trump to counter the vile attacks against him, even while not really supporting him, and with no decent alternatives to support. Even now, with war strongly looming, we are better than with Clinton who would likely already have reduced us all to ash.

Sadly, there are still many Democrats, liberals, etc., who don’t understand how bad all choices were, what’s going down, and remain in denial, as well as ‘Trump supporters’ who into similar games (psychological scripts and roles). But it isn’t good guys vs bad guys, but all bad guys, all gangsters.

I’ll again quote a French commentator I heard (Maybe on Crosstalk?): ‘Trump will destroy the US, and that’s why I support him’. It isn’t a ruse — it’s that we are living in a ‘hell’, so to speak, a zombiefied ‘Wrestlemania’ absurdity where monsters can look ‘good’ in comparison to worse monsters, with fires a frying pans, pots and kettles, comprise the landscape.

What is needed is a third force, with revolution, of some undefined kind — a social, political, and economic reality-based paradigm shift. One in which everyone is constantly moving as more information and new developments are presented. No one knew just what Trump would, or will do, or does even now, because we are still in interactive chaos and turbulence where quasi-random free-for-all forces can overwhelm strategies and plans. All that is left in the
pandemonium perhaps, is ill-defined intent and trying to grasp moral and intellectual integrity, trying to do the right thing for the current positions, in the heat of the battle..

Several months ago, I said, “this will all end badly”, and wrote the reasons why, which essentially boils down to the fact that Trump is a shallow, amoral, egotistical person, quite the opposite of a religious temperament. I was even more surprised because spiritual Russian people could not see through him.

As for his being told lies, he chose the people to surround himself with, who are all liars. So what could one expect? Did he choose, for example Steve Cohen, who has been urging better relations with Russia? Paul Craig Roberts? Philip Giraldi, Robert Steele, Michael Hudson, Dennis Kucinich, who has advocated a Department of Peace? No, he picks the head of Exxon, the most environmentally polluting criminal corporation in the world. He chose a Mad Dog to be in charge of Defense. Like picking a rabid dog as a house protector. It’s sad and ridiculous at the same time.

Personally, I see people all around me being upset with Trump. I’m not, because, as with Obama’s broken promises, I never expected anything good to come of him, except, maybe a slight reprieve from immediate war with Russia from a Clinton administration.

Looks like even that will not happen. Well the bright side is that Bannon, who was dangerous in his views, is gone, but with all the other problems–multiple assassinations of Russian diplomats, shoot down of Russian planes, St. Petersburg Bombing, False flag gas attacks, threats of war with N Korea, (forgetting that the Chinese, who chased the West out of the North with a 3rd world army, now have a far more powerful army and a far more powerful country, in no mood to be humiliated by the West ever again) there is plenty to be deeply concerned about.

However, wringing one’s hands is also not the answer.

I just saw a good article by the former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate, Ajamu Baraka, who call for a mass peace movement.

Focusing on what is going wrong and feeling bad about it is futile. Envision and focus on
The Good, The Beautiful and the True. What is good and decent.

I was just talking with a dear friend yesterday, long time peace activist, who still buys the anti Russia propaganda, as he heard from fake leftists, Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky, both of whom blame Assad for Syria’s problems.

What is really needed now is a real dedicated peace movement bringing together all factions that have been distracted by identity politics.

The Motto of the Saker Website: Stop the Empire’s War on Russia is a good start

Some may recall that mustard gas was shipped by the US to the port of Bari on the Adriatic sea toward the latter portion of WW2. This was a secret, ostensibly “just in case” the nazi fascists used their own gas…so it was said after the FUBAR.

FUBAR?

Indeed so! Bari had relaxed it’s air defense and the fascist aircraft dropped bombs on Bari – a harbor crammed with ships laden with oil and supplies…they gave the whole harbor a real going over. The presence and character of the cargo in ship “X” was so secret that even the harbor master knew noting of it. Of course a bomb went through the hatch cover and the “gas”, which is a volatile liquid, mixed with the oil floating on the water from the ruptured tanks…

Those who cleaned themselves and put on fresh clean clothers, generally, survived. Those that did not…died horribly.

Bari is not a secret.

So some bombs hit a depot or workshop, they say, maybe so. So what? It is war…

Anyway the point is that Bari happened – and sort of happened again. This is ordinary.

Somebody might want to write about the FUBAR at Bari – it’s no secret, except that we’re supposed to forget about these inconvenient matters…

Frankly, I agree with mrr. Israel is intent on taking over the entire M.E. and the U.S. is fully complicit in that goal. I read your posts, Saker, on a regular basis and you are a bastion of sanity in an increasingly insane world.
You have been and I suspect will continue to be right about Trump. I am always willing to step back and watch any and all proceedings before offering an opinion on anything, but once Trump let his Zionist-to-the-max son-in-law and daughter into high positions of power I knew that Israel will always come first in this administration. Another lost opportunity. History repeating.

Yes, the Israeli/Zionists want all of the Middle East (and more?). They are even willing to temporarily (a generation or two) partner with the medieval/Wahabbis/psychopathic Saudi royals to achieve that objective.

Roth-child led Pharisaic Talmudism (the ones who established and control Israel) have been aligned with the Saudi desert pirates, outlaws and their minor isolated depraved (Wahhabi) cult from the start. To undermine their opponents (since 18th c.), and with this ISIS-like bunch (20th c.) they tyrannize the people of the Arabian peninsula, steal their oil, and hijacked Sunni Islam. Besides, Roth-child led Pharisaic Talmudism beats all as far as prehistoric backwardness, evilness, and psychopathy is concerned.

In the 90s the same PsyOp was successfully conducted by NATO-backed terrorists in the war against Yugoslavia.

“The 1992 “Breadline Massacre”: “United Nations officials and senior Western military officers believe some of the worst killings in Sarajevo, including the massacre of at least 16 people in a bread queue, were carried out by the city’s mainly Muslim defenders — not Serb besiegers — as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military intervention. . . . Classified reports to the UN force commander, General Satish Nambiar, concluded . . . that Bosnian forces loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic may have detonated a bomb. ‘We believe it was a command-detonated explosion, probably in a can,’ a UN official said then. ‘The large impact which is there now is not necessarily similar or anywhere near as large as we came to expect with a mortar round landing on a paved surface.” [“Muslims ‘slaughter their own people’,” (London) The Independent, 8/22/92]
…“‘They [i.e., the Muslims] have committed this carnage on their own people?’ I exclaimed in consternation. ‘Yes,’ confirmed the Prime Minister without hesitation, ‘but at least they have forced NATO to intervene.'”https://archive.is/x2i4i

“Canadian (UN) soldier testimonies from book : The Sharp End” by James D. Davis
…
Bosnians murdered their own people in well-staged attacks for PR reasons”https://archive.is/KZr4B

“PSYOP increase the relative combat power of friendly forces and adversely affect the combat power of the adversary. PSYOP accomplish this result by targeting the identified vulnerabilities of foreign audiences through the employment of the PSYOP development process. Within the DOD, the Army has the primary military role to conduct PSYOP. Army PSYOP units perform this role by supporting U.S. national policy, by conducting PSYOP in support of military operations and United States Government (USG) agencies, and by providing PSYOP training, advice, and assistance to U.S. forces and to friendly nations.”https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-05-301.pdf

The analysis is good but there is for me little or no surprise.Never trust the West…I said three years ago,the first mistake of Putin was after Odessa.Same with the ‘our partner policy’..Russians elite seems to have an inferiority complex vis a vis the West.There is NOTHING to expect from these evils.For more than 1000 years it is the very same old tune.Russophobia.The only thing they understand is force or at least a credible threat of force.Putin did not want to ‘liberate’ the Ukraine(at least the totality of NR).Ok..what do we have now?A nazi junta at the RU border,which everyday is getting stonger eventhough the country is bankrupted,the IMF and the US/EU will provide money forever(just1.6 billion more only this week).Russian will soon be prohibited,a new generation of junior nazis will follow.It will be too late to denazify the Ukraine.The sanctions are here to stay forever(see link below).We have a massive NATO build up at Russians borders with baltics states,Poland etc becoming more russophobic by the day.Missiles at Russia doorstep(Romania,Poland soon).Blackout on the MH 17 story but it seems that Russia has no real power to show the truth to the world(no pr).
How many billions lost in sanctions,jobs,oil price,ruble crisis,Syria campaign for nothing as the qatari pipeline will now go ahead etc…?How many people died or are injuried handicaped forever or refugees because of all this mess(in the Donbass,Russia and Syria)?The Donbass is destroyed.Why going to Syria ‘for a few months'(it will soon make two years)not to finish the full job,eventhough what has been done was fantastic.How is it possible to let the Idlib ‘al qaeda’ crowd leave from Alepo alive?The russian embassy is targeted in Damas almost every day.Now we are thanked for this naivety with this second sarin false flag.How many planes civilian and military lost?How many diplomats died for strange reasons?And now it is Russia(metro attack).The fake color revolution are starting again,with little reaction from the power because afraid of the west reaction.Russia must stop to be so naive and to care about what will be written or not in the western mainstream press.As it will always be negative and never ‘enough’ for them.These evils just want a total surrender..or war,no compromise.Diplomacy,forget it,they don’t have diplomats anymore.Stopping with the Olympics or the FIFA world cup craziness,a lot of money spent for zero result.Russia will not get any respect for that,only critics.It is becoming an easy blackmail target(check fifa 2018).It will be cancelled anyway and 100 billions USD will be lost.
We are in war and during a war there are no ‘partners’,no games,no sport only ennemies.
JFK was the last US president.The deep state is in charge they can even cancel the next elections,it is not necessary anymore.

nb:trumpcare and the tax reform are..postponed…more reason for war to come

Same with the ‘our partner policy’..Russians elite seems to have an inferiority complex vis a vis the West.

That “our partner” thing the Russian administration does, which bothers so many people is misunderstood.

It does not mean “friend” … ( …as Putin pointed out to a German interviewer when asked “are you friend or foe” : [paraphrasing] The relations between countries are not the same as relations between individuals. I am not your ‘friend’; I am not your bride, I am not your groom. I am the President of the Russian Federation, a nation of 150,000,000 citizens. It’s my job to represent and protect their interests. )

When he says “our partner”, it should be understood in its precise, technical meaning: there are signed agreements between Russia and that other country. Perhaps they pertain to the issue at hand.

It’s part of Putin’s way of walking the path of peace to contain the violent impulses of his psychotic dance partners. If it comes across as being conciliatory, that may be a good thing, a calming mechanism. Up to a point.

At the moment, the psychotic ‘partners’ are getting real twitchy.

Hopefully, Mr. Lavrov will be able to show Mr. Tillerson a couple of smooth dance moves (and a dossier of evidence) on the 11th, 12th of April…

The negotiation for the removal of combattants from Alleppo and other places to be bussed to Idlib was a brilliant idea.

For every combattant there are about ten persons involved in logistics. Each one of those who boarded a bus to safety was recorded. These people will by now all have been identified, and the investigations to the rest of the logistics chain is well underway.

If they had died on the battlefield, their supporters would all remain mostly unknown.

The combattants made a Faustian deal. They and their comrades will have a day of reckoning in the near future if the SAA or Russia has anything to say.

In the meantime tens of thousands of people have been saved from injury or death. They have a roof over their head, they now have electricity and water. They have medical attention. Their children can again safely go to school.

Well pax-Americana/antlantacist/CFR. They have their agenda it has been thrir since 1998 plan for the new American century. Trump or any other puppet will not be allowed to deviate from that.Seven countries in 5 years. Wolfowitz doctrine etc. That’s why they hate Putin and Russia.
P.S Any one who has followed the ME imbroglio should realise this but then again YESTERDAYS NEWS GETS WRAPPED IN TODAYS FISH. This day and age in the west facts reason and logic have nufin to do with their dystopic reality. John Kerry ‘s famous words, ‘ WE R LIVING IN A PARRALEL UNIVERSE.

“I’m a bit less optimistic about the election than you are. I don’t think the Pentagon and the War Party would let Trump be president even if he’s elected so there will be no summits with Putin or anybody else next June.”

Re: Turkey, and your assessment of how that country plays in the above ‘what next’ scenario…
Sibel Edmonds says she’s heard, from a source she has long considered to be reliable, that there is a plan to assassinate Erdogan prior to the April 16 referendum.

If you were to factor into your ‘what next’ scenario the removal of Erdogan, how would that change the analysis? Who would be likely to replace him? And, what’s the possibility that the replacement could/would get on board with a Kurdish autonomous region in Syria?

I certainly agree with other commenters who say it feels like a storm is brewing.

It is all terribly sad, but there is no surprise whatsoever. Only for the diehard positive thinking optimists who believed that Trump was more than a trump card of the ‘deep state’ and a representative of the ‘grassroots’ revolution of the persecuted ‘white male’ against the ‘elites’. The diehard pessimists endowed with the power of negative thinking saw through the smokescreen before even day one. Just a reminder:
F. William Engdahl, “The Dangerous Deception Called The Trump Presidency”http://journal-neo.org/2016/11/25/the-dangerous-deception-called-the-trump-presidency/

The circus at the UNOSCo is identical, even in gestures, with the ‘presentation’ of the Iraki WMD by Colin Powell. Same language. Same conclusion: Assad must go and hang (and then Putin).

Thanks for the sobering analysis, Saker. I don’t have a link ready, but the IOC and the NHL (national hockey league) just recently decided not to allow NHL players to compete in the Olympics in South Korea. (And apparently the IOC says that without competing in the South Korean Olympic games, NHL players will not be eligible to play in the following games in Beijing. Are these players too Russophilic? There are other reasons to disallow NHL players, but given the larger events I wonder.)

I read some talk of this being perceived as a slight against Canadian fans, by the American NHL powers-that-be (PTB). I don’t know to what extent this is true. But it’s led me to speculate that a certain anti-Americanism may be being crystallized, ever so carefully, by some Canadian PTB? I plan to watch for more evidence.

By the way, in last week’s by-elections, the Banderites in Calgary voted Conservative in a landslide – 70% of the votes. The ridings for former PM Harper and prominent Conservative MP Kenny were up for election. So, no, current PM Trudeau and his Liberal party do not have the Ukro-Nazi bloc support. They just don’t.

If that is true, not-Pierre-Trudeau’s-son will get rid of his Bandero-Fascist FM. Chrystia Freeland is hard on the eyes and not in keeping with PM Hairdo’s perfect family identity, I-am-not-gay, Boticelli-on-Velvet politics.

‘Bull in a China shop’ – I’ve heard many times.
FWIW, MythBusters did a spot where they put a bull into a space filled with shelves of China. The bull ran around the shelves for several minutes without even touching anything!
Just sayin’ .

By the way, in reference to my comment above, if Canadian PTB are taking steps to delicately and carefully distance the Canadian populace from the American one, then this may be a very good indicator that the American PTB are about to do something really, really self-destructive?

‘Demobilizing America: a nation made by war and a citizenry unmade by it’

About how in WWII the whole nation was behind it, and during the Vietnam war, the nation stood up and denounced it, forcing it to end. The people ‘yelled’ and the politicians were forced to listen and act.

Now, there is silence. What does that say about the people? In my opinion it says they have lost their democratic voice, they have been subjugated.

‘It remains to be seen whether, in Donald Trump’s America, with that sense of demobilization fading, America’s wars and military-first policies will once again become the target of a mobilizing public. Or will Donald Trump and his Teflon generals have a free hand to do as they want abroad, whatever happens at home?

In many ways, from its founding the US has been a nation made by wars. The question in this century is: Will its citizenry and its form of government be unmade by them?’

As I noted above, the ‘people’ long ago lost their democratic voice. Trump was an attempt to regain it, alas, failed.

All my life it has been said that WWIII will begin in the Middle East

Whoever is in charge in America scare me now, more than they have ever scared me in the past.

There must be some purpose to all this, there must be …… it will not benefit the ordinary man (for the ignorant among the feminists, ‘man’ in this sense includes women …. it is not hard, really, follow the bouncing ball girls)

Hope I am around when it is all over, it will be a great time to buy real estate

The reason why the American people “opposed” the Vietnam War is because there were thousands of dead Americans who were dispatched back to Hell by the North Vietnamese (with support from Russia and China).

And there was a little thing called the draft, which was an ever present threat to send more Americans back to their Luciferian home.

In other words, Americans oppose war … but only when it costs themselves too much in blood or treasure.

That is nature of the Controlled Opposition called the American “antiwar” movement.

If, on the other hand, when foreigners die by the 100,000s or by the millions from America’s criminal wars like Operation Desert Slaughter or its fake War on Terrorism, the not-so-peace-loving American people will offer a bored yawn in response.

In short, the problem is *not* because the American people have lost their democratic (sic) voice.

It is beause Americans are not peace-loving.

They are a war loving people and have been so throughout their 200+ bloodstained history.

The Сокол called the shot on Drumpf back in February …he’s been euniched or flipped or maybe he was the neocons’ Manchurian candidate from the start [with all of the kabuki theater simply as window dressing to fool the sheeple]…

It matters not how and why…question is what now…?

I have to say I think this article is on the wrong track in several aspects… particularly on the Kurds and Turks…more on that in a minute…

I think the most cogent take on the situation is from mrr’s post above…some very good points there…bottom line folks is that Drumpf and co. are about to attack Syria…how big a strike and what the result is going to be is yet be seen…

mrr makes the salient point that Centcom has gone ‘dark’ about the troop numbers and equipment being moved into theater…very significant…

And just today Drumpf practically declared war on Assad…when asked by media if he would ‘do something’ in Syria…he replied that if he is going to do something then he’s not going to telegraph it in advance like Obama…

Very informative video and quite frankly I believe Drumpf is about to take sudden, forceful action…he has painted himself into a corner where he must deliver some kind of kinetic action…or he loses all credibility in the eyes of the braying hyenas foaming at the mouth for war on Syria…both in the media and in congress…

So I would say that the idea that ‘nothing’ will happen is the least likely option…

Also I don’t buy the conventional wisdom about the Turks and the Kurds…for the US the Kurds are disposable…but the Turks aren’t…

Forget about ISIS…has nothing to do with anything…the US goal in Syria has always been to dismantle the country as a sovereign state…and not just since 2011…but way before that…

The most valuable partner in this project is and always has been Turkey…it makes no sense to me that the US is going to cut loose its MVP…

It is always instructive to look back in history…

The last time the US attacked Syria was in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982…

Reagan sent the marines to Lebanon…they were blown up in October 1983 by a suicide truck bomb that claimed the lives of 241 leathernecks…in what the FBI called the biggest non-nuclear explosion since WW2…

At the time…Reagan’s attack dogs were calling for a ‘a cruise missile into the window of the Iranian ambassador in Damascus…’

That mouth-foaming plan was shelved…but another plan…for the military removal of President Hafez Al Assad…was hatched…the crux of the plan was this…

‘…When Assad challenges Israel and the Marines in Lebanon, he knows that if Israel attacks him it cannot occupy all of Syria. Assad feels he can always retreat to the North and set up a smaller state and with stronger Alawite control. However, if Turkey is brought into the calculations of Rifaat [Assad] (the real power in Syria) and Hafez, their calculations will be totally different and would be impossible to add up without losing their power. If Syria is attacked by Turkey from the north the Alawite stronghold will be gone at the start and Assad and his supporters will have to fall back on an ocean of hateful Sunni moslems (sic) in the south where they will be eaten like lost sheep. Therefore the pressure on Syria should come from Turkey and not from the Marines and or Israel.

Why would the calculus be any different today…?…if anything the empire is in a much more advantageous position right now…

That regime-change plan was thought too ambitious at the time…considering the USSR’s support for Assad…so the US decided on a limited strike…which ended disastrously…

‘…On November 14, 1983, President Reagan approved a joint U.S.-French air raid against the barracks to be carried out two days later. What happened next is hotly disputed by Reagan administration officials, although almost all accounts concur that Secretary of Defense Weinberger refused to give the authorization order to the U.S. commander of the Sixth Fleet permitting the U.S. aircraft to leave their flight decks. The French—who did not know that the United States had abandoned them until their planes were airborne—proceeded with the airstrike. Briefed on what had happened, Reagan responded: “That’s terrible. We should have blown the daylights out of them. I just don’t understand…”’

So the French…qu’elle surprise…and US hatched a joint strike…only Cap Weinberger got cold Siberian feet at the last minute and let the French twist in the wind…

Then the US mounted a hastily planned raid that likewise ended in disaster…

‘…On December 4 at 8:00 a.m., twelve A-7 Corsairs and sixteen A-6E light bombers took off from the U.S.S. Independence and U.S.S. John F Kennedy, escorted by an E-2 Hawkeye, two EA-6 Prowlers, and two F-14s. The bombers were ordered to strike three sites east of Beirut, which included an ammunition depot, air-defense radars, anti-aircraft guns, and SAMs…’

And then this happened…

‘…Despite official statements, however, the first direct combat in Lebanon between the United States and Syria was both a military and political disaster. Two of the U.S. planes were shot down either by anti-aircraft rounds and/or approximately forty SAMs; one pilot was killed, another was captured by Syrian forces, and another parachuted safely into the Mediterranean Sea. (The hostage pilot, Lieutenant Robert Goodman, Jr., was held and interrogated in a Syrian prison for thirty days until Reverend Jesse Jackson secured his release.) Furthermore, although the Pentagon claimed that the airstrikes were “very successful and achieved our objective, which was to prevent, through a measured response, repetition of the attacks on our reconnaissance aircraft,” that never came to pass. Syrian forces continued to target the U.S. reconnaissance flights…’

Getting back to the Turks and Kurds…let’s just look at a few coincidences in the last few days as the train has suddenly gone warp speed…

First Tillerson goes to meet Erdogan…supposedly there is friction about the Kurdish issue and Raqqa…at least that’s the cover story…

But it is certainly not lost on the Pentagon or any war hawks that Erdo has managed to at least create some facts on the ground with his own kinetic action…which was of course preceded by a fake ‘rapprochement’ that completely duped Putin…and then wham…Turkey send in the tanks…

Now we have the ‘chemical attack’ in Idlib…the same Idlib to which all the Aleppo terrorists were bused to last December under the blessing and ‘mediation’ of Turkey…remember little ‘Bana’ and her tweet charade from ‘besieged’ Aleppo…next day she is sitting on Uncle Erdo’s lap…

I think it is very dangerous to overlook the real danger here…which is Drumpf, Erdo and Satanyahoo making a sudden jump that catches Russia on its hind foot…

The goal being to create ‘new’ facts on the ground and maybe even the holy grail of chasing off Assad…

I think mrr has nailed it…

‘…Clearly, the chemical attack was timed and choreographed with the media in order to generate maximum public support for whatever the US has planned against Syria in the near future. Whatever it is, they are about to do it under the bear’s nose, and probably also behind its back (in Lebanon)…Russia’s choices are to unilaterally stand down, make deals with the West to share the spoils, or fight…’

So what is VVP going to do…?…clearly he has to either fight or cut and run…I don’t see that diplomacy enters into it at this point…

I don’t think I need to remind VVP of this…but the best way to respond to an assault is a quick and decisive blow…

I would guess Shoigu and the staff are working around the clock right now to figure out how to get men and hardware into theater in a hurry…

Drumpf’s fighting words leave very little room for misinterpretation…he has thrown down the glove…let’s just hope that VVP makes him regret it…just like Uncle Ronnie who got punched in the nose for his troubles…

Anyone out there care to describe a tactical (sub-kiloton) nuke scenario?
They aint your grandpa’s nukes anymore.
If the sparks do fly, I sense there’s a plan in place to keep from a global catastrophy.
Ahh, who am I kidding?

Well, it’s 07 April. The US has flattened a Syrian airbase with Tomahawk missiles. Only 6 aircraft in repair hangers were destroyed, which tells me that when the Russians were warned, so were the Syrians.
Only 23 of 59 missiles struck the base. I doubt the Russians shot them down, but were their avionics jammed?
The Russians have suspended their MoU with the US on flying in Syria. They are now rushing more assets into Syria.
Meanwhile Trump’s NSA McMaster says the strike did not stop Assad’s ability to carry out more attacks. Is that now the implied goal of the strike? Should we expect more strikes to accomplish that goal? Because the Russian moves suggest they are not going to stand down again. Especially if the goal appears to be a significant deterioration of the Syrian army’s ability to fight.
The underlying motive of this strike was not humanitarian. It is to remove Assad. Trump will be pushed to do more. When he does, the Russians will engage. The US political class will find that intolerable.
Then we will be looking to what moves NATO makes on Russia’s western border.
“Sparks about to fly” indeed

Exactly! It’s what most ‘aware’ people now believe. (“Do what WE say Donald, or your family are ‘no more’) There are those who believe that our planet’s only hope now, is ExTernal intervention; (as was in ‘previous times’) Let’s all pray; it can’t hurt. Anon in Oz

We all should know that Trump is a mish mash collage of half baked ideological ‘pickings’ and other assorted ideas crammed into a weak personality. How easy would it be to play to his grandiose image of himself, as a covering of his insecurities, and gaslight that end of things? Sorry, but I never thought for a moment to expect other than to expect more of the same only more so even before the election was decided and said so at the time, suffering the slings and arrows of the Trump supporters.. Just one honest look at the two candidates and this was obvious. Now can we all get back to sticking with the reality of things? For Trump reality is an impossibility.

The fact that ‘haunted house Bannon’ has been removed is probably a cause for a small sigh of relief depending on his replacement, which would almost be impossible to pick a worse person for the job, but knowing the current state of affairs just might be done..

Not a bad article but why it never questions the UN inability whether it is incapable or that corrupt that it has become a part of the neocon establishment to intervene. Is there a need for the UN? Why it fails to uphold their Charter? Why hasn’t the US/NATO been confronted and held to account for their continuous violations of International Law?

Sad to say maybe 90% of the World population is totally stupid – or too busy to give events/news like this any more than a flippant reaction (which the news is designed to do without them even knowing)
Their reaction is easily swayed the way it is intended by the perpetrators – again without the audience even knowing.
I didn’t give this event much consideration of any pending reaction – BUT – I am actually now very afraid that this could be the tipping point to disaster for all.
To think the likes of McCain and Graham will have gotten their desire of War with Russia and ruination of most of the Planet makes my gut churn, and churning it is.

at times like this I think it is important to remember what our choices were in this election.

Clinton Fojndation – pure evil

or Flacid Trump – good description Saker

So we only had that, and now, looking back, it was still the right decision…so I think that the Gods will be with us during this time. If Clinton Foundation had won the election, I don’t think there would be any hope now. But the Clinton Foundation did not win and since then there hasn’t been much any ordinary American could do to turn the Titanic…so we just have to hang on and hope.

This comment was intended for yesterday, but (I hope) still relevant today. I am particularly glad that the Saker visited and spent time with Sheik Imran. We may or may not agree with Sheik Imran on all subjects. But he certainly has a firm grasp of the Talmudic plans and threats, which are being carried out under the proxy flag (and the cost) of the US.
Furthermore, assuming that a colored revolution is not underway to bring back Russia to her Yeltzin days and associated robber-oligarchs, the conciliatory effort of the Russian government – against open insults and ridiculous accusations – appears incomprehensible.

It seems equally impossible that the Russian diplomatic and investigative apparatus may not have grasped a basic principle of American psychology. Where kindness, frankness and nobility of demeanor are perceived as symptoms of weakness, inviting contempt and aggression.

The phenomenon does not extend to the “everyday people,” those who, for all intents and purposes do not count. But one or two steps up in the scale of authority, arrogance often allies itself with the pride of ignorance – witness the BS expelled from the mouth od congressmen, senators, generals, military brass, CIA, NSA, academic pundits and talk-show people-of-nothingness. And where ignorance is particularly esteemed as a political and managerial skill. Remember Bush Jr. ?

Assuming but not given, that what we hear is all there is, until Russia will not defend herself, and respond in kind to American and Talmudic aggression, verbal and physical, she will not win and we all will lose.

Saker as allways has the best information out there
I had some hopes in Trump as well but only very short time
Now we are back to 0
It could get even a lot worse than with Obomba and the nutcase Bush
I think already 2017 will show us where we go

For those who believe that the planets are the Universe’s tools of reward and punishment, here is what one astrologer predicts among a few mentioned in the following link when two of the most destructive planets in our solar system meet in Capricorn starting around January 2018 and reaching their peak in 2020.

The negative side of Saturn-Pluto is about as bad as it gets as it signifies planned, organized, and purposeful criminality, tyranny, and evil at the highest level. The Saturn-Pluto combination is associated with the worst abuse of power and corruption. This influence will reach its peak in 2020 when Saturn is actually conjunct Pluto in Capricorn. Conjunctions, squares, and oppositions of Saturn and Pluto generally coincide with very negative and disruptive occurrences such as the beginning of WW2 and 9/11.

This Saturn-Pluto conjunction could bring about the demise of important economic, corporate, and political power structures and the downfall and disgrace of those who occupy positions of power in those institutions. Debt burdened major corporations, governments, banks, and other economic institutions could come to a grinding halt signifying the death of the old established political-economic power structure. These power structures could become even more oppressive and tyrannical as they desperately try to remain in control.

The first paragraph sounds like WWIII while the second could be world-wide stock market crash or financial tyranny solidifying its power.

All these astrologers seem to interpret this titanic conjunction we are headed for as leading to a tectonic shift in power.

Whether it takes the form of some natural disaster, plague, world war or widespread economic harship, or some combination, we have been on a collision course with this yet unknown critical mass for quite some time now, so it’s no surprise that it’s this close

I am sick and disgusted about this turn of events. It took me 3 minutes to see through the list of usual suspects, WP/CIA blow by blow, White Helmets, and somebody must have slipped Erdogon $$$$, the useless UN, France, Briton, US and ‘anonymous’ Israeli…wow, really? Can anyone read a map?
This just goes on and on, never thought I’d say it; get the civil war started so the rest of the world can take a break, but the pipeline must go on, the US needs the $$. The Monster is desperate.

@Saker
Thank you for this analysis “à chaud”.
I agree with you on Trump / US. I also had some hopes and they all vanished. The last straw being the +84b$ raise of military’s budget.

Regarding the Kurds I wonder why you question their loyalty to the US. I know this people is divided, like many people. You have the PKK communist factions on the one hand and the Barzani family friend with Erdogan and Netanyahu on the other hand. And they fight one against the other in Irak.

But in Syria I was surprised to see how efficient they are and how motivated to go to the bottom of the Raqqa province. Many analysts said they would never go that South because it is an Arabic land and it’s not their business to take lands from Arabs. I guess they have been promised the land in exchange for their foots on the Arab ground.

The take of the Tabqa dam and airport was quite a blow.

So when I read “I submit that it would be the hight of folly for the Kurds to commit the same mistake.” it makes me feel that you wish they have not already accepted to follow the US when they actually already have…

Best wishes and thank you again for your warm and highly ethical presence on the blogosphere.

The stupidity of DC could see them think they can “sideline” China by attacking N Korea and “sideline” Russia and Iran by attacking Syria. That would be the death spiral for the US. Simply attacking N Korea would show how little regard Americans have for South Korea, and the message to China, India, and Russia would be clear – the US wheels out “WMD” whenever it needs a casus belli……rockets in Korea, gas in Syria.

I doubt anyone in China or Russia believes the world is safe with the US being unhinged and living in giant video-game arcade.

One day after the U.S for the first time stated that Assad is not the main target, this 100% staged attack and blaming game . Together with small scale attacks on Russian soil (St.Petersburg , Astrakhan , Rostov on Don ) trying to stir up reactions and evaluate them.

just wondrin” if the Turkish extension into Syrian territory is Turkey saying to USA look what we can offer you for no fly zones etc but ONLY if you go our way re the Kurds-double game going on here methinks…………

“Suffice it to say, Turkey is on the brink of alleging that the CIA plotted the coup attempt against Erdogan.”

andhttp://russia-insider.com/en/erdogan-tells-putin/ri19443
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that a “chemical attack” (and a hospital bombing, for good measure) in a jihadist-controlled town in northwestern Syria endangers the fragile ceasefire and peace talks in Astana. ”
Maybe he wants that.

Don’t count Trump out just yet! The guy has been in office 2 months and is under major attack. So far I do not see any reason to believe that he has been neutered. He is simply dealing with a massive incoming attack and so has to keep his head down. Virtually everything we are seeing from the Trump admin regarding Russia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea is a holding strategy. They are maintaining the situation until they have the political/diplomatic room to deal with it. There is a lot of hot air, a lot of talk and not much else.

IMHO its important to understand that:
0. Expectations about Trump were wildly and unjustifiably overblown in the pro-Russia camp. So are claims that he has been neutered.
1. a real Trump position on Syria will not arise until after a summit with Putin.
2. The US will not attack Syria. Only the neocons want this. They could not get Obama to do it either.
3. The US will not lose Turkey over Kurdistan. The Kurds will be double crossed. Again!
4. Events at the UN are due to Ms Haley. I doubt she will last long in that position.
5. Trump has a major domestic fight on his hands now. He must deal with this first.
6. Time is on Trump’s side. He is getting stronger while his domestic enemies weaken.

So trump is going to show his enemys at home how hard he is. To be honest i predicted this russia acheived alot with a small force but failed to finish off the rebels. Putin stated in 2013 he wouldnt fight a us attack on syria no reason to suspect anything has changed

“Two prominent journalists with experience on Syria believe the recent gas attack was a false flag – designed to make the Trump administration go to war on Assad.

Sarah Abdallah noticed something strange – that a Syrian reporter for Gulf-based Orient TV tweeted about the attack 24 hours before it took place.

Abdallah translates the reporter’s tweet: “Tomorrow a media campaign will begin to cover intense air raids on the Hama countryside and use of chlorine against civilians.” Another reporter, Mimi Al-Laham, known as Partisan Girl, said, “this shows clear foreknowledge that the rebels were going to stage an attack by Orient TV.”

Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo
Wow. This anti-Assad “reporter” tweeted about the sarin attack in #Syria 24 hours before it happened. Still think nothing fishy is going on? pic.twitter.com/xrGWemylFW
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Tweet says: “Tomorrow a media campaign will begin to cover intense air raids on the Hama countryside and use of chlorine against civilians”
4:01 PM – 5 Apr 2017

Al-Laham also reported that The White Helmets, an al-Qaeda affiliated group funded by George Soros and the British government, were responsible for the chemical weapon attack on civilians in the Syrian city of Khan Shaykhun. She goes on to state in another “coincidence” that “250 people were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda last week from the nearby city of Hama, which is the same number as the current body count of wounded and killed civilians.”

Al-Laham further noted that the media’s narrative has quickly changed from “Nerve Agent” to “Sarin” to “Chlorine.” She added that the “media is quick to believe anything without any evidence.” She also exposed one of the media’s sources – a doctor, Shajul Islam, who is facing terror charges for kidnapping and torturing two British journalists in Syria.

“air cover for the US forces in Syria imply either a tacit agreement with the Russians and the Syrians, something like what the Israelis apparently have”.

Assad has said that the next time he’ll shoot the Israeli jets out of the sky. And Nethanyahu has said he will destroy Syria’s air defenses.

It looks indeed like Trump has been isolated from reality by the neo-con globalist. I wonder who exactly is briefing him. Might as well be the MSM.

It’ll be interesting to see how Putin is going to react. Israel of course wants a divided Syria to weaken it, so their lobbying has been successful in getting US boots on the ground in Syria for the creation of a “safe zone.” Safe indeed, but mostly for Israel.

Whoever is screaming WWIII should get off the computer, go to a park and hug a tree. Just because the politburo’s media arm has gone totally berserk and Zion’s hoaxers are out in full force doesn’t mean that one is obliged to shed all dignity and go on a rampage oneself. Spouses, co-workers, acquaintances rarely appreciate such behavior.

The children love it, though. “Our father is a monkey, monkey, monkey…!”

_smr: I do agree. Take of all that media bustle and what you get – mostly economic every day action and smaller scale military action mostly against soft targets (poor countries and innocent civilians). The whole hysteria of military Operation Barbarossa 2.0 has very weak facts behind. Few Hollywood battalions running in forests and fields of Poland and Baltic States.

So. When will you all start to make conclusion why Russia anyway was backing Trump at all? They in Kreml should have realized that Trump is nothing but a buffoon idiot. He has no kind of abilities to be political leader. Even 1/4 of his Nov 2016 supporters in US has started to hate and loathe him. Many voted for him because they hated Hillary which was of course good reason to vote Trump. But honesty – Trump sucks. He is lousy.

Okay. I try another one. Why to waste time at all thinking of future of men like Trump. American system is corrupted and only catastrophe will end it, likely financial. Wasting time and energy to any election in EU and USA is fool idea. China, Russia and Iran should care themselves. Let the west face their end.

I leave that link here. It explains in full historical detail why things are what they are in the USA, why warmongering is endless, why the US wars (of aggression, all of them) must be as long as they possibly can, and why the different US presidents are only cosmetic changes.http://www.entelekheia.fr/why-america-needs-war/

Please everybody read it, so we all know what we are up against. The USA and their NATO minions will never go to a full-blown war against an enemy that could take them down, but they can carry on destabilizing things as much as they can, wherever they can. Right now, they are out of control trying to launch conflicts left, right and center — but always stopping before taking real risks for themselves, and then regrouping and trying again elsewhere.
It’s horrible.

We have been almost in nuclear war multiple times in the past because of errors under high tensions — sometimes a few minutes away from it, averted by rather tenuous actions contrary to established procedures. The real risks have been here for quite a while.

No, blue, they’re not real. Nothing about it is. This is precisely the point. It’s an elaborate deception, a sophisticated illusion. It’s very powerful and had me fooled (and sometimes worried) for decades.

The illusion is so powerful because it is supported multilaterally. Which means, horribile dictu, also by Russia. Not Putin’s fault. He inherited the lies. These lies are too big to fail, like the moon landing (or other “man in space” stories), so they’ll never be admitted. Never. But still they’re lies to hold sheeple and lesser nations in awe.

Somewhere Putin stated (paraphrasing, don’t have the quote ready): “When working for the intelligence service, I thought we were pretty tough guys; but when I entered the world of politics, I realized that by comparison, the intelligence guys were innocent little children.” I heard that a couple years ago, don’t remember where.

Ironically, we are looking at the scenario of “Terminator” without the need for Skynet or any malign computer intelligence.

Human lack of intelligence serves the same purpose. The neocons tell the Pentagon to set up a “no-fly zone” in Syria – either immediately, or after US troops get battered through lack of air cover. The aircraft go in; they get shot down; the Pentagon automatically launches counterttacks against the missile defence batteries and airfields; Russia destroys the launchers (on land or sea) with cruise missiles or Iskanders. Now the neocons are boiling furiously, determined to wipe out this insult and forgetting that their own lives are in the balance. How long before some of those nice manageable little “tactical nukes” get fired?

This has echos of Reagan 2.0. Bush as VP was the condition to let Reagan win. Then the prince of darkness, James Baker, got rid of all Reagan’s trusted friends with the help of dear Nancy whose head was turn by suave. And they still shot Reagan.

The ‘optimists’ will take these events as just another periodic demonisation of Russia and Syria, designed to keep the sheeple ‘thinking’ along the desired track. But the ‘madman’ hysteria over North Korea and Syria, combined with the CIA/MI6/Mossad ‘terror’ attack against Russian civilians feels like something more significant is forming again.

Trump, proven to be a ***very*** weak minded zionist president, is being carefully battered this way and that. And the growing Washington rhetoric sounds just like that which we expected after a Clinton presidential victory. War drums growing ever louder. Trump’s “let’s all work together and defeat ISIS” drivel has been long forgotten, tho sadly it seems Putin is still trying to think the best of Trump in this regard.

This ***biggest*** factor in recent days is absolute ***proof*** that Turkey is 100% on the side of NATO and the demons that run the Deep State in the West. Putin expended great effort and expense to ‘win’ Erdogan over, but events show that Putin got played by MI6/Israel, since Erdogan simply ***pretended*** to be at risk from a ‘coup’ in order to seemingly ‘need’ Russian support.

Turkey has rushed to give ‘scientific’ backing to the official lie of the false-flag chemical ‘attack’. It co-incides with Turkey having been allowed by Putin to completely finish phase one of Turkey’s ***invasion*** of Syria. Now Turkey doesn’t need Russian support, since Putin has allowed massive numbers of American troops to flood into Syria along Turkish routes. Turkey will now work with American forces to continue their operations in Syria.

As with Ukraine, Putin has the logical, sensible ‘strongman’ option (used by the West to great success every year) to issue ***explicit*** threats and warnings, backed with appropriate military actions. But as with Ukraine, Putin chooses not to make this choice, instead acting like the ‘muscular trendy vicar’ with his “can’t we all just get along” plea. Speaking softly while carrying a big stick does ***not*** work if everyone knows you’ll never use the stick.

Putin tries to leverage the American forces to do the dirty work in Iraq, Syria and Libya. But Americans have never shied away from invading the lands of others and getting their hands dirty if there is a long term advantage. American follows on from the old British Empire – deeply infecting every aspect of the ‘body’ of a target nation. And the British Empire was buily on Roman traditions- subverting targets by offering the leading families in those targets generational social and financial rewards.

That Trump’s zionist puppet masters keep both Syria and North Korea as viable significant military targets lets us know how deeply the planet is at risk. The Far East is a powder keg ready to explode as a consequence of outstanding issues having been frozen in place since WW2 – issues that will be resolved sooner or later in mega-bloody conflicts between Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam and the other regional asian players. Syria, on the other hand, is the American route to war with Iran and Russia. And Putin is doing nothing to prevent either outcome, with his belief that there are ‘reasonable people’ who can be negotiated with in the West.

The biggest potential enemy of the Demons of the West who run the Deep State is their own people. The citizens of the West are soft-brainwashed by the zionist horrors who control the mainstream and fake indy media, but unlike most other populations, have a sophisticated civilised underlying outlook that can be triggered to generate vast amounts of anti-war sentiment. Putin was reaching these citizens, but as a result the zionists simply turned up their Russia bashing to 11. And Russia’s counter propaganda has been getting quieter as a consequence of Putin’s dislike of being described as the ‘great manipulator’.

Those that support Putin’s current ‘modest’ strategy will claim that it has worked so far. This is actually untrue. It is like saying, during the run up to WW1 or WW2 that either war was never going to happen because the people warning about the approaching wars had not been proven right ***yet***. It is ***not*** about the precise timing but the remorseless planning. People had hope for Trump, but look how long it took for his anti-war rhetoric to be silenced- and for Trump to start to sound like another Hillary Clinton. Trump was a bump in the road, and the monsters have flattened that bump in record time.

Britain’s ‘Supreme Court’ (actually just a bunch of Tony Blair loyalists masquerading as an ‘independent’ judiciary) have just declared that British children are all formally owned by the state in a landmark ‘judgement’. The court systems in France, Germany, America, Canada and Israel are all showing an identical pattern of militaristic enslavement of the minds and bodies of their citizens in preperation for Total War. World Wars require a lot of preparation, and societal change. Peaceful powers look, feel and operate very differently from powers readying for massive mass-murdering warfare. In the West we are so far removed from the anti-war 1970s, it isn’t even real.

And Putin’s biggest mistake is watching this unfold, and simply mirroring the same in the Russian empire. Preparing for the final war rather than using existing Russian power and influence to finish off the warmongerers before they have their way.

Most of us probably thought Trump was our last hope and now that hope is ***gone***. But Putin could have stepped up the moment Trump was elected, grabbed him by the hand and forged a new pro-Human alliance. But to do so Putin had to ignore the screaming zionist horrors in the world’s press- and that meant Russia turning its back on Israel and Saudi Arabia. Instead Putin chose to embrace the monsters that control Saudia Arabia and Israel, and in doing so lost Humanity’s last chance- leaving Trump to sink.

For evil to triumph all that is needed is for good men to do ***nothing***. And when Trump attacks N. Korea or Iran or Syria, Putin will most certainly do ***nothing***, having painted the Russian Empire into a corner where the only real military thinking is about successfully taking on America in the ‘final’ conflict.

Britain’s ‘Supreme Court’ (actually just a bunch of Tony Blair loyalists masquerading as an ‘independent’ judiciary) have just declared that British children are all formally owned by the state in a landmark ‘judgement’.

They are only acknowledging a fact that has been common knowledge in legal circles for well over 100 years.

See The Empire of the City by Knuth. Pay careful attention to the information in the footnotes.

There was only one way and one chance to avoid the coming war and that was for Trump to go all-in in taking the Clinton foundation and the corruption down. This would have blown wide open how many of our politicians (on both sides) are corrupt traitors. Anything short of putting these Traitors in prison (or executing them) is a complete failure.

Trump spoke enough about it during the campaign to give glimmers of hope that the enemy within could be purged but, nothing since he has been elected has indicated that it will happen. While not naive, I did have hope too. As the days pass I see that the answer lies elsewhere and not with Trump.

I have come to see that it comes down to every individual, the responsibility lies within each and every one of us to save humanity because humanity is not worth saving unless the humans who it consists of are worth saving. No one is going to come along and save America from its fate as long as the American people remain detached from the consequences of their actions and choices.

To those who work towards you secretive ends. The means you have used are stains on your souls and you will not escape the consequences of your actions. Justify it in your head by whatever twisted beliefs you have. Go ahead and let your family believe you are an honorable person defending your country. Accept it when ignorant sheep thank you for your service or prop you up as a respectable member of society. But know that one day someone will stand before you and you will be held accountable. You are Satan’s Mercenaries, bought by 30 pieces of silver and deserving of the traitor’s fate.

Easy I’d say…..Russian missile operated by SAA troops trained and targeted by Russian milItary shoots down drone or coalition planes trying to prevent more children being gassed, whether American or Israeli…..remember Russian supplied BUK from epochs ago to Ukraine is still a Russian missile from Russia bringing down MH17……… Syrian airforce bombed a chemical factory but “believers” say the planes them selves dropped the chemicals……..latest RT headline says Tillerton and coalition are making plans to remove Assad from power…….

I think this may a bit alarmist. We know that there are really two ( or maybe three ) separate anti-Russian camps, one small group of fossilised Republicans like McCain and Graham, and the now merged and virtually industingushible grouping of former Republican but originally leftist Jewish neocons like Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, Paul Wolfowitz, Victoria Nuland etc who were more than happy to support Hillary Clinton against the despised Trump, and the so-called liberal interventionists who are the progeny/students/disciples of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Madeline Albright like Michael McFaul, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Brzezinski’s sons Mark and Ian and Obama himself. The ex-Republican neocons motives are mostly those of old cold warriors unable to diffentiate between the Soviet Union and Russia, although the likes of Kagan and Nuland are closer to the liberals. The liberal interventionists just want to destroy Russia as a country, a society and a state, with the aim to control the resources of a divided Eurasian continent. They have also exploited the resentment of the broader left, who were apologists for the Soviets in their youth, which morphed into the various progressive groups responsible for the Cultural Marxist takeover of academia, and responsible for the hatred of so called repressed minorities of every kind against whites and males in particular, smothering of free speech and the undermining of Western society along plans of now long dead Bolsheviks from the 1920’s. This toxic left hates modern Russia with a passion, for rejecting communism, becoming capitalist, embracing Christianity, and Russian society’s total rejection and indeed opposition to their poisonous social policies. Their hatred makes them easy to manipulate, and this is the type of leftist in the media who whip up anti-Russian propaganda, believe everything former Russian stooges, criminals, paranoid former chess champions, and anyone with a grievance real or imagined with Putin himself.
The ex-military people around Trump might be wary of Russia, but could hardly be called neocons (with the possible exception of Nicky Haley doing her best Samantha Power imitation – who chose her anyway).

The possibility of all these disparate groups being able to coherently act to significantly drive US foreign policy under Trump is remote. They are coordinated enough to have Trump make the rediculous statement about Syria, but he is too smart to not realise that the attack was far too convenient, and apart from a bit of bluster, nothing will happen. With the exception of McCain and co, none of the other rabid anti-Russian coalition will have any voice in a Trump White House. When, not if, all this Democrat driven bullshit is thourougly exposed as lies from top to bottom, and the actives of Obama stooge Susan Rice and others involved in illegal surveillance of Trump and his team, and the illegal leaking to the soon to be discredited WaPo, NYT, MSNBC and CNN for their collusion, the whole collection of Democrats and their collaborators will have far more to worry about.

The time game must reload.
The important thing is to gain time. Fortunately the whole process of Trump’s election allowed for some more months of accelerated reequipping for the armies of Christ, but more time must be bought for them to be ready.
Anyway, one must not be superficial and understand one thing: the seemingly activated alternative for swift and the opening of the russian chinese bank branches for international clearing operations is a casus belli for the Empire or, for that matter, might be considered, by the same empire, as two consecutive broadsides in some hybrid asymetrical battle.
So, they too send two, yet dirty and far less effective, asymetrical broadsides in the form of more terrorist attacks in Russian soil and the U turn in Syria.
The immense immorality of it is staggering, but heads must keep cool and find ways to buy more time.

I don’t see anyway (other than Syrian/Russian surrender) to avoid war. The US leadership is totally insane. And Trump (even if he wants too. And that is still an open question) is too weak to control them.Almost every part of the “deep state” wants war.And now even those Republicans that support Trump in his internal policies,are calling for war now. Last night we see Graham on TV saying the US needs to destroy Syria’s air force. And when asked about Russian planes on the Syrian air force bases “so,they need to move them”. And Bolton on TV saying the US should go further and “tell” Russia to leave Syria.And if not,bomb them too. It is coming to a new “Cuban Missile Crisis”. But unlike that time,where Kennedy was a popular President with immense domestic political power. And was “able” to make a deal to prevent the warmongers from winning.Trump is “no John Kennedy”.

I fear the likelihood of a “new Munich” in the making.Where Russia and maybe China plays the part of Britain and France. We know today where that led.And it would lead to the same today. If the US,playing the part today of the “new” Third German Reich,see’s that threats will always work. Then shortly WWIII will be upon us.Historians almost unanimously conclude that if Hitler had been stopped at the time of Munich.The World would not have been consumed by WWII.The same is true today.Let no one even pretend to think that more appeasement of the US aggression will save them from war. Instead it will “assure” them of war.Once a bully see’s that bullying always works,they continue it.From Syria the US will move on Iran.If appeased there,Ukraine with be the new “Poland 1939” for our time.

“I don’t see anyway (other than Syrian/Russian surrender) to avoid war. The US leadership is totally insane”

And, therefore, a Syrian/Russian surrender won’t bring any peace either. The US leadership — and much of the US population too — is totally addicted to repression, chauvinism, squalor, and war. I would even put forward the contention that they don’t give a hoot about anything else; not even corporate profits.

That rotten rancid “apeasement” hogwash is just Azi propaganda to cover up the fact that they were leading Hitler down the garden path to the Carpatho Ukraine to collide with the Soviet Union … only that Hitler (or his councellors) saw through the Azi plan and didn’t take the bait, didn’t even take Slovakia, much to the dismay of the Azi plutocrats.

Back to the present. Putin said, after sending the Air Force to Syria, with regard to the risks of the intervention, that all things had been taken into account. And he also said: “Fifty years ago, the streets of Leningrad taught me one thing: If a fight’s inevitable, you must strike first.”

Where on earth to you get your “fake news” from. Munich wasn’t about anything but the Sudetenland. There was never talk of the rest of Czechoslovakia being taken over.Until Hitler saw how easy it was to take Sudetenland, and in early 1939 seized Bohemia and Moravia.Which were traditional parts in the past of the German Holy Roman Empire.The only question for him was whether Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine would be taken by his Hungarian ally. Who had ruled those areas as a part of Hungary before WWI. Or whether they would be “independent” under German hegemony. He didn’t want to give Hungary too much territory. So he only gave them Southern Slovakia,and then they seized Carpatho-Ukraine without his permission.He wasn’t too upset over that and let them.It wasn’t until after WWII that Stalin claimed Carpatho-Ukraine on ethnic grounds for the USSR Ukrainian SSR.

Hmmm? Sounds like you’re knocking down strawmen you put up yourself. I was only pointing out that the “appeasement” hogwash is just Azi propaganda. Easy way to educate yourself is reading Nikolai Starikov’s “Episodes” on Oriental Review. Will leave it at that.

The thing to keep in mind about the Anglo leadership is that while they portray themselves as honourable, righteous, honest etc they are the most devious duplicitous deceptive snakes on the planet. So they come up with such “appeasement” hogwash that is good enough to fool most people.

Happening right now, Trump blaming Assad for poisoning people. Nikki Haley saying Russia, Iran and Assad have no interest in peace. Remember Colin Powell, a despicable liar to the whole planet at the Security Council. This is the Anglo way. Lies, lies, and more lies. And always wear suits and ties and portray yourself as noble and just and righteous.

Historians almost unanimously conclude that if Hitler had been stopped at the time of Munich.The World would not have been consumed by WWII.

However often repeated, this claim does not find support in the factual record. Hitler bent over backwards to get along with England. It was the City of London and Wall Street that were determined that there should be a war, no matter what.

It as always the plan to degrade Syria’s military so that Israel could cross Syrian territory into the Bekaa Valley and degrade Hizballah’s military capability. Those are pre-conditions to Israel starting a war with Iran, which the US and NATO will then prosecute.

The Russians put paid to that plan – temporarily.

Trump is just another President who has been given “The Talk” upon entering the White House. “The Talk” goes like this: “Mr. President, you can preen and posture and say anything you want publicly. But the minute – I mean, the nanosecond – you take any actual action against the ruling elites of this country, you will end up like Jack Kennedy and so will your family.”

Trump is just another front man for the ruling elites now. He probably never was as “independent” as he claimed to be – Pepe Escobar has pointed out repeatedly that certain “Masters of the Universe” were backing him – and now he’s just another Obama toady.

It has been said that when the war, and they mean 100%, not the skirmishing now going on, comes – when this arrives, we shall know it by the first attack – which shall (they say) target RT. Alas, this too is beginning…

More interesting is the idea of “pre-emptive defense” – which Lavrov recently said is a concept in Law that the RF accepts…

Don’t count Trump out just yet! The guy has been in office 2 months and is under major attack. So far I do not see any reason to believe that he has been neutered. He is simply dealing with a massive incoming attack and so has to keep his head down. Virtually everything we are seeing from the Trump admin regarding Russia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea is a holding strategy. They are maintaining the situation until they have the political/diplomatic room to deal with it. There is a lot of hot air, a lot of talk and not much else.

IMHO its important to understand that:
0. Expectations about Trump were wildly and unjustifiably overblown in the pro-Russia camp. So are claims that he has been neutered.
1. a real Trump position on Syria will not arise until after a summit with Putin.
2. The US will not attack Syria. Only the neocons want this. They could not get Obama to do it either.
3. The US will not lose Turkey over Kurdistan. The Kurds will be double crossed. Again!
4. Events at the UN are due to Ms Haley. I doubt she will last long in that position.
5. Trump has a major domestic fight on his hands now. He must deal with this first.
6. Time is on Trump’s side. He is getting stronger while his domestic enemies weaken.

and most importantly:

7. The man has been in office only 2 months!”

It is possible many of you know how I feel about President Trump and I think many of you posting fail to understand, or want to fail to understand, that the President of the United States of America is in the process of fighting a very visible coup d’etat against him and his administration that has the full involvement of both the domestic and the international cabal that was against him before, during and after the campaign and election process. This coup attempt does not cause you some worries? It sure makes me worry.

I have included the quote from the post by Ngoyo from this morning to perhaps remind a lot of you to come to your senses.

What is happening is a coup d’etat against the duly elected President of the United States of America! You don’t understand that? You see nothing written on MSM in US, EU, Canads, Australia, Japan, Korea? The constant drumbeat of anti President Trump news and opinions? How many of your, and my, sainted opposition writers have now changed their tune about President Trump in mere days of him taking the oath of office? Where is your faith in a sea change of the direction of the United States of America? If you have no faith then things will surely never change. For Heaven’s sake, President Trump has been in office just over two months and not one day in that two months has he had a moment’s peace to get his administration up and running.

Those of you who are much closer to what is going on than I am had better get busy and in USA and EU fight against the almost overwhelming opposition to President Trump. Would you rather have had Clinton, McCain or Biden? I didn’t think so but if you don’t fight against and stop this coup that is what you will have and may God have mercy on your souls because those who are fomenting this coup surely will not.

Surely after what Trump said tonight about the dastardly chemical attack, if he does not follow that up with the military action plans being presented to him tonight, that there will a palace coup against him……especially if he is persuaded by Russian attempts to get to the real truth or even indicates he is prepared to take real evidence into account or listen to it,. surely his enemies are trying to get his supporters turned against him, because if they are not moved by the sight of gassed children by the ” blamed “Syrian forces, and does not follow that up, he will not be worthy of being their president, after all, the lovies and liberals are the ones with biggest voices when they recognised the infamous white helmets in Hollywood……

Trump already counts himself out by announcing that Assad was responsible for a gas attack and he would respond before even any valid facts are established, instead of being noncommittal, such as calling for investigation. His ambassador to the UN is doing the same. The best he can do now is reverse himself, which would damage him. The man can’t be taken seriously.

Bannon is out, Nunes stepped down, and Tillerson (in a 180 deg policy rotation) has said the hammer is coming down on Assad and all but threatened Russia. Looks like the palace coup is complete and the rubber is about to meet the road. Question is are the air defenses deployed in Syria up to the task of deterring a direct attack and will they be used? Or does the west possess some EM weapon that can effectively disable all such defenses and that they are prepared to use….

It has seemed to me for some years that the western advocates of a unipolar world understood that there was a window of opportunity to directly, militarily, confront Russia (and China) and come out on top but that it was rapidly closing. Should both countries be allowed to develop technologically much further any opportunity would vanish. Economic and political warfare has been tried and failed – failed specifically in the case of Russia. Are there people in positions of power that really believe that they can prevail in a direct military confrontation without triggering a nuclear exchange? Perhaps we will soon find out….

Tillerson was/is slated to go to Russia next week for talks – whats up with that?

As you say , a pessimistic view.
Bannon’s job in that committee is complete , and he is deployed elsewhere.
Nunez has recused himself from the ” Russia” investigation only , and continues his work.
Tillerson makes the right noises for those who require such , but let us wait to see what ensues.
It is not a bad picture at all.
Trump makes slow but steady progress.

And to make matters worse, ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis is currently presenting military “options” to Trump in the aftermath of the sarin gas attack (attributed to Assad, of course) that include cruise missile attacks against Syrian targets–like airfields shared with the Russians. Will Trump be so stupid and follow through with a crazy plan like this? My bet is on Trump being stupid.

Russia just blinked. It appears they are about to sell out Assad and Syria.

“The assistance that Russia lends to the government of President Bashar Assad in resolving the Syrian crisis is “not unconditional,” Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov told AP, adding that Moscow cannot just make Assad follow its orders.

Trump will drain the swamp, domestically. Foreign policy will not change or did you really think that the American rightwinger(s) was empathetic towards other peoples(especially to those who aren’t white)?

Solidarity is not value among American rightwing nationalists, I mean come on they think BLM is “radical” lol.

Thanks for this. In case someone is interested, I wrote a very detailed blog post, in which I examine the evidence about the recent chemical attack and compare the situation with what happened after the chemical attack in Ghouta in August 2013. I argue that, in that previous case, the media narrative had rapidly unravelled and that, for that reason, we should be extremely prudent about the recent attack and not jump to conclusions. It’s more than 5,000 words long and I provide a source for every single factual claim I make. I really believe it’s the most through discussion of the allegations against Assad with respect to his alleged use of chemical weapons out there. Please share it if you thought it was interesting.

That came in a second article, which went into excruciating, “I-told-you-so” detail about Hillary Clinton’s analysis of the Syrian attack, calling again for a no-fly zone, and claiming not barging into Syria as she had wanted to before her ouster was the real mistake here.

The media is trying to install Hillary Clinton as a kind of “shadow president”

She’s the “one you can trust to analyze what’s going on”

This is another prong in the multi-forked strategy to reinstall the mainstream vampire squid politician into the public’s mindspace, groom Clinton for the 2020 campaign, and try to retake ownership of the “authority” meme.

Will they lose again?

We’ll see.

One thing is certain, though. We’re going to see more of this crap

Sakerians and others among the ten percenters need to keep on pointing out that the Emperor has No Clothes.

Also, people might be interested in this video from back in 2015 in which some courageous Swedish physicians exposed how the white helmets organization applied incompetent medical treatment to children in the 2015 gas attack, that was probably the reason the kids died.

I am very, very disappointed with Trump’s foreign policy. It is apparent that the idiotic neocons are now back in full control of a new administration that promised the voters that things would be different this time around. Decades of neocon advised foreign policy has caused failure after failure & a world that is less safe, not more safe. Why didn’t Trump at least wait for verification as to who used the chemical weapons this time around? The last time Assad was accused of using them it was later found to be a false flag attack done by the militants, not by Assad. Did Trump forget this? On top of that, Trump just broke basically all his campaign promises to start a new foreign policy. I actually wonder if Trump or his family was threatened by the Deep State if he didn’t act in this manner. It makes no sense, especially since just recently he stated he would not demand Assad’s ouster & would try to work with both him & Russia in Syria. Then this chemical attack happens just “coincidentally” & now he changes course 180 degrees? Ridiculous!

[Translation from the original Portuguese (Yandex) added by moderator-DG.]
By bombing Syria, the USA put Mankind on the brink of an apocalyptic war whose outcome could be the end of humanity.

The missile attack against an air base in syria in the province of Homs has been released from the ships of the US Navy based at naval base Rota, Spain.

Syrian president Bassar Al-Assad had already denied any responsibility in the bombing of a hospital with chemical weapons, and reaffirmed the condemnation of this terrorist action.

In the United States, prominent members of Congress, republicans and democrats, have supported the initiative of Trump.

The day before, Hillary Clinton had suggested that the United States bombard Syria. It is recalled that it is party to recourse to nuclear weapons, such as most of the generals in the Pentagon.

In Europe, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the governments of other NATO countries rushed to show their support to the armed attack to Syria.

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin condemned with vehemence the aggression of the US to a sovereign state, from a pretext invented. Announced the suspension of the cooperation agreement with the US on the prevention of accidents in the airspace and asked for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. Iran also condemned the aggression.

China, whose president is visiting the US, has limited itself to a statement ambiguous.

The first conclusion to draw from the tragic event is that the current occupant of the White House is irresponsible. The fact of having been elected, and the popularity that surrounds it are instructive of the decadence of a society for which the money is a supreme value. But we should not forget that Trump acts as an instrument of a machine of war, of economic and political interests, and of a system in the media pervasive and powerful.

The bombing criminal from Syria opens a crisis whose outcome may be a new world war, a crisis that puts into question the continuity of Humanity.

4. It happened mere tens of hours after the U.S:A. announced that they would no longer seek to remove the President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar Hafez al-Assad, which was immediately decried and condemned by representatives of the so-called “moderate opposition”.

It does not take an Hercule Poirot to figure out who is the victim and who had all the motives and incentives to perpetrate the crime.

I fear the die is now cast… the coup complete… Kushner’s Cabal are now in complete control… mayhem in Syria – full-scale escalation by September – then the crusade WITH the Russians commences whilst the Zionists establish a single apartheid state…

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